On the Road: Did Dean Moriarty Inspire Sal to Travel West

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Like Kerouac, Sal Paradise is a writer who published two books over the course of the plot, even though the names are not told. The first section describes Sal's first trip to San Francisco. Disheartened after a divorce, his life changes when he meets Dean Moriarty and begins to long for the freedom of the road.

If Dean met Sal on the East Coast, they would head west. If Dean hit up Sal in San Francisco, they drove back to New York. Once when they were both in Denver, they headed south to Mexico.

The closing paragraph: So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity of it [...] I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty. He is the catalyst that causes Sal to move and keep moving, spurring him on and on and on.

With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life you could call my life on the road. Before that I’d often dreamed of going West to see the country, always vaguely planning and never taking off.

For each quote, you can also see ... my life on the road. Before that I’d often dreamed of going West to see the country, always vaguely planning and never taking off....

The night Dean was leaving to go back west, Sal and Laura were going to a concert with Remi Boncoeur, who happened to be in town. Dean asked for a ride to the train station, but Remi refused to let Dean in the car, so Sal left Dean behind, the last time he saw him. Sal says that whenever the sun goes down, he thinks of America and its sprawling lands, and especially of Dean Moriarty.

The narrator is Sal Paradise, a young novelist-to-be living with his aunt in Paterson, New Jersey. Sal has got a major Travelin' Jones. Most of his friends happen to be out west already. A college friend has invited Sal to live with him in San Francisco, and Sal also wants to visit Denver, ...

Before the novel, he traveled to places, but his method of travel was dull. As he travels with Dean and hitchhikes with other people, he discovers that the journey itself—the time he spends on the road—is more important.